St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-12
TALKS IN THE CORRIDORS.
North western Men who Do Not IL G.
fuse to Chat With Newspaper
representatives.

A tall man with q beard that looked as
though 1T had taken sun bath regularly
every day since it sprouted, got In the
rotunda OF the Merchants yesterday. This
was w. Won Steinwehr, tall representative
of Germany who now resides in Cincinnati,
and spends the summer months In the valley
OF the Red River of the North, where he owns
bonanza farm which yields him handsome
income yearly. Mr.. Won Steinwehr was on
his way to his farm TO open the spring work,
and he said from what he could hear from
that part of the country the prospects for an
abundant crop of wheat next fall were good.
The drouth last fall Slapped the earth pretty
thoroughly. but the heavy snowfall of the
winter had filled the dry districts with
moisture, aud if there is an ordinary amount
of rain during the summer season there viii
be big yield OF wheat. He will put in sew
eral thousand acres of wheat this spring. Mr..
Won Steinwehrs residence on his Dakota
farm is one of the finest in the territory
north of the forty-sixth parallel, and the
many friends of the baron eagerly take ad-
vantage of his genuine Teutonic hospitality
during the summer mouths, and his home is
scene of merriment aud social happiness
from one months beginning to another.
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Oliver Dalrymple. the bonanza farmer of
Dakota and the enterprising citizen of St.
Paul, sat at desk in the writing room of the
Merchants yesterday afternoon, attending to
some correspondence. Mr.. Dalrymple is just
back from his Dakota farm where he has
been for several days attending personally to
the putting in of 1000 acres of wheat. He
said it was rather early to begin seeding, but
excused his early operations by saying that
the early bird catches the worm. Mr.. Dali
rymple will put in $4,000 acres of wheat this
year. and he is confident that the yield will
will be greater than for several years. Seed
ing now, he says in the territory is quite
general, and the farmers feel confident that
thew will null ont in the Nfall with big crop.
In discussing the subject, Mr.. Dalrymple said
help was unusually scarce up there this
spring in consequence of the interstate COM
merce bill, which shuts out second-class
fares, and men can hardly afford to pay first
class fares from the East to the wheat fields
of Dakota. He said he believed the law
would be repealed and that il was passed at
the instigation OF Wall street SPECTATORS,
who have ruled the United States for years.
In his opinion Dakota will give to the world a
bulk of wheat next fall that will surprise the
widest spectators, and although winter
wheat is showing up in bad shape, if nothing
happens there will be sufficient next fall to
amply supply the deficiency.
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Ralph Metcalf, formerly runner down OF
nonpareii items on a St. Paul morning paper,
now an opulent and arrogant editor, stalked
into the MERCHANTS yesterday under silk
tile and took dinner with DR.. Hoyt. Metcalf
is the figurehead of the Winona Herald, and
says that times in the beautiful little city
down the river are looking up aud bid fair to
continue lively for long time yet Real es-
tate has been changing hands considerably
since spring broke and the prices of corner
lots have taken surprising jump. There
are prospects that the lake back OF the town
will be filled up and plated into an addition.
which will give the city a good chance to
spread out her skirts.